Brian Platt puts things in perspective at The Canada – Afghanistan Blog:

Beyond Parody

Ceasefire.ca approvingly quotes Hamid Gul, one of the staunchest enablers of Islamist violence in the world, on why the international mission in Afghanistan is “unjust”, and how we might rectify the situation…

The Ceasefire people have stopped caring, if they ever did, about putting up any pretense of moral fibre. So long as it’s anti-Western, they’re on board. They are now citing, as evidence for withdrawing our soldiers, a Taliban supporter who urges us to support the principled leader of the Taliban (as opposed to that cowardly puppet Karzai.) You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

Next up: Steven Staples relates Ayatollah Khomeini’s advice for how to run fair elections in Afghanistan.

From the end of an earlier post :

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Ceasefire.ca (the name says it all) is the main “activist” effort of St. Steves’s militantly anti-military Rideau Institute (see end of  “EMERGENCY RESPONSE” link above).  Mr Staples is constantly quoted by our major media, in their effort supposedly to be fair and balanced, when reporting on defence matters.  Yet one would hardly understand his true stance, or the real nature of his “Institute”, when he is simply described thus as he often is (end of link):

…Steve Staples of the Rideau Institute in Ottawa…who has been critical of the Canadian Forces mission to Afghanistan…

Hardly the whole, er, story. Our lovely major media informing the public. Not.

Mark
Ottawa